[sane-devel] About the hardware lsit

2008-10-27 Thread nicolas.mar...@freesurf.fr
A suggestion: have the link to the supported scanners list in the documentation page, point to: http://www.sane-project.org/sane-supported-devices.html instead of actual: http://www.sane-project.org/sane-backends.html and what about a "RTM" field in .desc files, so that supported models coul

[sane-devel] About the hardware lsit

2008-10-27 Thread René Kjellerup
Sendt: 27. oktober 2008 11:08 Til: m. allan noah Cc: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org Emne: Re: [sane-devel] About the hardware lsit Time is not what I have plenty of and I guess a lot of other people does not have this :-( A simple suggestion that I would think would make it seem easier to do

[sane-devel] About the hardware lsit

2008-10-27 Thread Julien BLACHE
"m. allan noah" wrote: Hi, > but the OP still has a point- it is very difficult drom those lists to > figure out what scanners are worth looking for online. most of them Absolutely. Also there's a slight bug on the page, it's marked as being 1.0.18-cvs, probably because the sane-desc binary us

[sane-devel] About the hardware lsit

2008-10-27 Thread A B
Time is not what I have plenty of and I guess a lot of other people does not have this :-( A simple suggestion that I would think would make it seem easier to do: set default values and treat every scanner as old or unmarked until someone adds valid data. Then you have 0 scanners to fill in data

[sane-devel] About the hardware lsit

2008-10-27 Thread Julien BLACHE
Nicolas wrote: Hi, > But, unless I'm wrong, there's no easy way to access this CVS file from > the web, one can only read it after downloading Sane CVS, and it's > hidden in a doc sub-directory, where no-one would go intuitively. JB.

[sane-devel] About the hardware lsit

2008-10-27 Thread Nicolas
In fact, a first level of information around this is provided in Sane documentation, in file sane-backends.html But, unless I'm wrong, there's no easy way to access this CVS file from the web, one can only read it after downloading Sane CVS, and it's hidden in a doc sub-directory, where no-one wou

[sane-devel] About the hardware lsit

2008-10-27 Thread m. allan noah
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 4:56 AM, Julien BLACHE wrote: > Nicolas wrote: > > Hi, > >> But, unless I'm wrong, there's no easy way to access this CVS file from >> the web, one can only read it after downloading Sane CVS, and it's >> hidden in a doc sub-directory, where no-one would go intuitively. >

[sane-devel] About the hardware lsit

2008-10-26 Thread A B
Hello. I wanted to get me a scanner but I must say that finding a scanner with Linux support is not easy. The problem as I see it is most of all computershops not making it searchable to find "linux supported" hardware (and that is also something that one might discuss how that is defined), but als

[sane-devel] About the hardware lsit

2008-10-26 Thread m. allan noah
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 5:59 PM, A B wrote: > Hello. > I wanted to get me a scanner but I must say that finding a scanner > with Linux support is not easy. The problem as I see it is most of all > computershops not making it searchable to find "linux supported" > hardware (and that is also somethi